The Voice Of Nature Is Always Encouraging

from the journal of
Henry David Thoreau:

March 18, 1858/

Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when we hear it again it is remembered like a dream, reminding us of a previous state of existence. How happens it that the associations it awakens are always pleasing, never saddening, reminiscences of our sanest hours?

The voice of nature is always encouraging.